kikal8

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So this morning when i was leaving for work, i backed out o my parking space at my house, went to the end of the road to turn around and started driving. I heard this massive clunking noise and felt it too. I was like AWESOME!! Wtf broke. So i get out and look under my car. I see this huge ice ball wedged between the car and the road. So i was like ummm.. How do i get this out. I didnt really have much to do except to wait for it to melt or just go and hope it breaks up and nothing happens. So i was gonna be late of i had to wait so i just said **** it an drove expecting it to break because well, its ice. So i started to drive an it didnt ******* break! It was ******* scraping under my car for like 15 seconds going 5 or 10 mph. When it came out from under my car it didnt break. It wound up under my left rear tire and i drove over it an it still didnt break. And yes it WAS an ice ball. Anyway. I didnt think much of it so i got to work. Worked. Went on lunch. Came back worked until i got out. As i was leaving i saw a small puddle under my car so i put some on my finger and smelt it, and it was clearly oil.

So i brought the car into work and put it in my lift. The ******* ice ball punctured my oil pan and it was dripping consistently like every 10 seconds. So i used JB WELD and left it there. Tomorrow and im gonna look and pray that it set good. I. Checked over the rest of the car and it bent the **** outta my exhaust heat shield towards the back. So i had to drill a whole and bolt it up. Watever. That wasnt a big deal but so stupid. There were scrapes all over the bottom of the car. It couldve been alot worse so im happy about that but i could not believe that it happened from an ice ball.

I thought i would share. Sorry for the length but im sortof venting here.

nhanson

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That sucks man. Oh well i guess.

574

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Andddd that's why my car hibernates in the winter haha. But yeah that sucks man, JB should hold

kikal8

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o well is really all i can say. haha. i plan on getting a new car relatively soon anyways but thats not the point. and yea i wish i could afford a second car to drive in the winter but lets be honest. i have an 06 lsj with 74,000 miles on it. its worth like, $9,000. i dont exactly need to garage it ya know? i love the car but its cheap haha. like i said. i wanna get rid of it soon and im hoping the jb will hold. im pretty certain it will tho.

Cobalt_Daddy

shitty deal. not many options for ya when you're on the road... let it melt (not realistic) or jack it up.. (pain in the ass) haha

kikal8

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for real. ha good to hear that although i made pretty dumb decision that most people would have probobly done the same

LS6Rally

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Or put a hole in the oil pan, and half ass it back together. sounds like jacking it up would've been better, though i will say i probably would've kept going, hard to tell as i wasnt there.

BLAZIN07SS

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Jb weld isn't going to hold. It has oil coming in behind it. Highly doubtful that will last. I would take the pan off, clean it thoroughly and get the crack welded

sLAsh

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Depending on where it is on pan. Drill out hole, tap it, let oil drain through hole to get rid of shavings, insert bolt.

kxrida2000

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If u clean the pan of oil jb weld will hold but if u have the pan off to do that might as well pay a welder 10 bucks to throw a quick tig bead on it

BLAZIN07SS

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Yeah but oil was leaking from behind the Jb weld while it was setting. That's the concern of mine

kxrida2000

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Exactly the jb weld won't set if oil is on it. At least it shouldn't

RKRamos

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Lower it.

kikal8

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I drained the oil and made sure it wasnt leaking from that spot anymore when i put the jb weld on it. I cleaned off the area with brake cleaner. Oil being behind the jb isnt an issue. Good to hear u know what ur actually talking about tho (not sarcasm)

Terenc3

I feel for you, I had this exact same thing happen... EXCEPT, I was lucky enough to have a nice sized hammer in my back seat. I just pounded away at the ice until it was small enough to pull from underneath.

Omnigear

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Nfamous60

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could have made a bigger hole, lucky u nip it in the bud b4 it could have got worst.

Aleksey

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That sucks man, my buddy ran over a chunk of ice on the highway one day thinking it's just some snow and it destroyed his tire

etnies

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Man I used to have a 2.4 SS and it got a hole in it from a rock in the road anyway mine was to big to have welded up so I went to eBay. To my understanding the lsj, 2.4 and the 2.2 and even the hrr share the same oil pan. I picked up an hhr oil pan for 40 bucks with free shipping it was used but it was in great condition

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dtabbs

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Reverse would have been the option I would have used.

kikal8

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Trust me i tried that. Haha